this brought me a warm smile

[rustbeltvoice]

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/Papa_Francesco_Drops_The_Hammer

"....Once, the Sovereign Military Order of Malta was the real deal. In 1530, the knights held out for three months against a much larger force of Ottoman Turks, eventually breaking the invaders. (George C. Scott talks about this victory in Patton.) Now, you know who was a Knight Of Malta? My late aunt Mary. She was a feisty old gal, Mary was, but I don't think she'd have done well against the Ottoman Turks. That is the institution over which Raymond Leo Burke now presides...."

"For people who were waiting for the pope to do something, rather than simply talking nice and being charming, this is a serious thing he did. Burke has been a serious ultramontane pain in the chasuble for a couple of decades. Last year, Papa Francesco gave Burke the boot from the Congregation of the Bishops. But Burke kept running his useless gob.... And the pope has fired a warning shot over likeminded omadhauns throughout the institutional church.

Naturally, this has caused consternation among Burke's admirers, who are legion...."

[rug]

1. He writes with a stilletto.

[okasha]

2. Does he ever!

LOVE his parting shot about not tangling with the Jebbies.